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Spiny dogfish, grad school, and life

Month: April 2014

Earlier this week some new rules were proposed for spiny dogfish management on the east coast. The changes affect three key parts of the fishery management plan for spiny dogfish: quota set aside for research, essential fish habitat, and the allocation of the quota. While…

North Carolina’s weather has never been what you’d call predictable, especially off of Cape Hatteras (all those shipwrecks have to come from somewhere). That said, what I saw yesterday while tagging sharks off of Hatteras takes the cake. During what had been an uncharacteristically nice…